2Elizabethtown man sentenced to life for 2021 beating death of his wife

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA — A 43-year-old Elizabethtown man will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the 2021 beating death of his wife, a crime prosecutors described as one of extreme and prolonged brutality.

Christopher Alexander Mello entered the plea on Thursday before Lancaster County Judge David Ashworth, who imposed the mandatory sentence of life without parole. Mello admitted to repeatedly striking and kicking his wife, 39-year-old Alexandria Reynolds, during an assault that unfolded over nearly 24 hours at their home in the 300 block of West High Street on September 30, 2021.

Assistant District Attorney Fritz Haverstick told the court that Reynolds sustained more th

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